The Order of Things
An Archaeology of Human Sciences
$38.95
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
12 April 1994
Summary
With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into the seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sciences of biology, philology, and political economy. The result is nothing less than an archaeology of the sciences that unearths old patterns of meaning and reveals the shocking arbitrarine…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679753353 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679753354 |
| Author: | Michel Foucault |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 1994 |
| Weight: | 306g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 130mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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About The Author
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lectured in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophie at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France’s most prestigious institutions, the College de France.
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